Νέμεσις

See also: νέμεσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Personification of νέμεσις (némesis, “distribution”), from νέμω (némō, “to distribute”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /né.me.sis/ → /ˈne.me.sis/ → /ˈne.me.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /né.me.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈne.me.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈne.me.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈne.me.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈne.me.sis/

Proper noun

Νέμεσῐς • (Némesis) f (genitive Νεμέσεως); third declension

1. Nemesis, goddess of retribution.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Νέμεσῐς; τῆς Νεμέσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νέμεσῐς hē Némesis
Genitive	τῆς Νεμέσεως tês Neméseōs
Dative	τῇ Νεμέσει têi Nemései
Accusative	τὴν Νέμεσῐν tḕn Némesin
Vocative	Νέμεσῐ Némesi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Νέμεσις (Némesis)
• → Latin: Nemesis

References

• Νέμεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νέμεσις (Némesis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnemesis/
• Hyphenation: Νέ‧με‧σις

Proper noun

Νέμεσις • (Némesis) f

1. (Greek mythology) Nemesis